. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. ses. AVho could doubt a pacific conclusion to thenegotiations ? Our tact and diplomacy had been educatedin a rough school of adversity. Once the attention of thenatives had been arrested, and their confidence obtained, wehad never failed to come to a friendly understanding. They showed us a camping-place at the base of the brown 246 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1877. grassy upland, in the midst of a thin grove of trees. Theyreadily subscri
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. ses. AVho could doubt a pacific conclusion to thenegotiations ? Our tact and diplomacy had been educatedin a rough school of adversity. Once the attention of thenatives had been arrested, and their confidence obtained, wehad never failed to come to a friendly understanding. They showed us a camping-place at the base of the brown 246 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1877. grassy upland, in the midst of a thin grove of trees. Theyreadily subscribed to all the requirements of friendship,blood-brotherhood, and an exchanse of a few small of them then crossed the river to Chumbiri, whose greenwooded slopes and fields, and villages and landing-place,were visible, to tell the king of Chumliiri that peaceablestrangers desired friendship with him. They appeared tohave described us to him as most engaging people, and tohave obtained his cordial co-operation and sympathy in avery short time, for soon three canoes appeared conveyingabout forty men, under three of his sons, who bore to us the. ,>- ?? THE KING OF CHUMBIRI. royal spear, and several royal gifts, such as palm-wine, agoat, bananas, and a chicken to us, and a hearty welcomefrom the old king, their father, with the addition of a pro-mise that he would call himself the next day. Feb. 28.—About 9 of the 28th the king of Chumbiriappeared with eclat. Five canoes filled with musketeersescorted him. Though the sketch above is an admirable likeness of him,it may be well also to append a verbal description. A small-eyed man of about fifty or therealwut, with a well-formednose, but wide nostrils and thin lips; clean-shaved, or ratherclean-plucked, with a cpiiet yet sociable demeanour, cere- 1877.] THE PEACE PIPE. 247 monious, and mild-vnircd, witli the instiiifts of a grccdytrader cropping out of him at all points, and cunning beyondmeasure. The type of his c
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